Eye Quote by Alix Kates Shulman

“My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.”

Alix Kates Shulman

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Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.

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“His cup of tea did not include the dregs, though the dregs are the tea. His brew was nothing but vapor.”

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Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of.

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When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is the product of that urgency.

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Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them…

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I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people would call…

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I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work.

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For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

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The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be different, and…

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I am a feminist. I'm trying to show the relationships between men and women, always the structural relations, not individual villains. I'd never make…

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I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?"…

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If you take your eye off the ball or lose focus for even a minute you can lose a game against any team.

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“He blinked. His eyes fell as he processed her response. Then he lifted his chin and attempted a grin that was almost painfully dejected.…

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How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its…

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I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next…

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Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always let it keep rolling.

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But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

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Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.

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Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into which the sheaves should…

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At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there…

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